Matt Jalbert features some stunning photography of urban sprawl in California. Check out this unsustainable mono-culture. How they chuck their cars into the landscape. But there are also nice images from Death Valley National Park. (via Kottke)

Fireflyforest has great images of wildflowers and wildlife in Arizona.

Snailstales is about snails, slugs, snails and slugs. Good reflections on natural history.

The National Library of Australia Pictorial Collection contains 80,000 digitalised images from Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific.

The Google video of the day is annotated here.

Watch how sharks disappear from an aquarium? (Via Google videoblog)

Watch a beehive being massacred by hornets.